A double bill from the Coprolite Run. On the right is
Luke Booth's McKenzie. The McKenzie was an autocycle from
the 1920s with a Hobart engine. Luke's is single-speed but
a 2-speed version was also available.

The other machine is, at first glance, a Berini M13 on a
Pluvier cycle... but it's not. The cycle is a
Hercules. Maybe someone took all the bits off a Pluvier and
transferred them to the Hercules when the original frame
broke? The strangeness doesn't stop there because the
Berini engine is badged as a "Melesetto", supplied by Otto Benda
in Prague. This is one of three cyclemotors recently
acquired by Dave Watson. The others were a BSA Winged Wheel
in the proper BSA frame and a Cyclemaster on a Humber bike -
complete with the distinctive duplex tube fork and 'running man'
chain wheel. Like the Berini, these two also showed
evidence of having spent time in Eastern Europe.

Continuing our Eastern European theme, this moped was on sale
- and sold - in the moped jumble at the Kneel's Wheels Run in
November. It is a Simson SR-2 dating from 1960. We're told
that these have become quite common in mainland Europe since
German unification but few have made it to the UK so it's still
an unusual find over here.

Marcel Mizon's Corgi was reported to be running well on the
Mince Pie run - especially by those riders who tried to keep up
with it! It's a Mark II model with a two-speed
gearbox. The separate gearbox was an optional extra on the
Mark II, becoming a standard fitting on the short-lived
Mark III - until the Mark IV came along with proper,
built-in gears.

If you want to draw attention to your bike, paint it
orange. This principle was established in the early days of
the original EACC - who remembers the 'Research Dept's' orange
Cyclemaster? Or the orange Batavus outfit at Sidecar
Sundays? Once seen, never forgotten. Latest in an
honourable line is Tris Smith's Raleigh RM4, which was spotted at
the Mince Pie Run. Its striking and well-executed colour
scheme elevated it from being just a Raleigh moped among a
hundred other bikes to a machine that stood out from the
crowd.

We are the East Anglian Cyclemotor
Club, so let's look at some more cyclemotors...

This is Keith Rutledge's Mini-Motor and was one of two
cyclemotors that completed the West Anglian Spring Run.
Keith, like David Whatling (whose Motamite we 'spotted' in The
MAC last June), is one the dedicated cyclemotorists among our
membership. It is the fate of the cyclemotorist to be the last to
arrive at the end of any run. However, for once, Keith was
not bringing up the rear on this club ride. That's because
the other cyclemotor on the run was Andrew
Pattle's Lohmann.

And here is that Lohmann - though pictured here resting along
the route of the Radar Run when Andrew had stopped to take some
pictures of the other riders. How, on a Lohmann, did he get
far enough in front to stop and take pictures of the others?
Obviously, there was some cheating going on.

It's not a cyclemotor, it's not an autocycle and it's not a
moped, but this 1952 98cc Bown motor cycle in the club line-up
was probably the machine that most club members coveted.
Why? Because it's completely original. It has been stored,
unused, for over 50 years. It even has the instructions and
tool kit still wrapped up in the toolbox.

When Puch made a smaller version of the Maxi, it ended up with
the self-contradictory name of Mini-Maxi. This red and
white model was the first version and was introduced to the UK in
May 1983. The Mini Maxi Lady, available in either pink or
red, replaced it in July 1985.

Guy's Zorplan Shopper. A company from Essex marketed
this conversion of a Puch Maxi to a three-wheeler. Their
appeal must have been quite limited, making surviving examples
pretty rare - in fact, Guy's is the first one we have ever
seen.